Army Intensifies Campaign against Terrorist Groups across Syria

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Syrian army and armed forces units continued their intensive campaign against terrorism in all Syrian cities and areas.

Two citizens were martyred and ten others were injured in Hama southern countryside due to the explosion of a booby-trapped tanker towed to a truck, a source in Hama province said.

The explosion took place near al-Karzely School, leading to the destruction of the school completely as 6 residential houses in the area were destroyed.

The army units carried out several operations against the armed terrorist groups in many areas in Damascus Countryside, killing huge numbers of them and destroying their gatherings and weaponry.

SANA reporter was informed that the army destroyed a weapons warehouse in Rankous area, eliminated all members of an armed terrorist group, along with its leader Mohammad Ali Lafi, near Yabroud and killed 5 terrorists and injured 25 others near al-Sarkha village.

The army units destroyed a terrorists’ hideout along with all weapons and ammunition stored in it in Zabadani eastern mountains and killed a number of terrorists, among them was Aseed al-Khateeb.

The army engineering units defused two explosive devices weighing between 15 and 17 kg planted by terrorists near the entrance of Ein al-Hour village north of al-Zabadani.

In Madaya, the army discovered a 70-m long tunnel that was used by terrorists to transport weapons and move between areas. In Daraya, the army clashed with terrorist groups in the city and killed 10 terrorists.

An army unit killed nearly all members of an armed terrorist group, along with their leader Louay Wadhi, in al-Mleiha town and killed a number of terrorists and destroyed hideouts and gatherings in the village of Erbeen.

Another army unit targeted and destroyed a terrorists’ hideout in Alya Farms in Douma, killing a number of terrorists, among them was their leader Abu Mohammad al-Sahrawi.

Meanwhile, the army targeted and destroyed a terrorists’ hideout in the areas of al-Kuswa, killing and injuring a number of terrorists and destroying their weaponry and ammunition.

A military source told SANA reporter that an army unit repelled an armed terrorist group attempt to attack military checkpoints in al-Jamleh and al-Sheikh Hadiyd areas in the Hama countryside, killing and injuring many of them, in addition to destroying two cars equipped with heavy machineguns.

The source added that non-Syrian terrorists were among the dead terrorists.

Army units destroyed two terrorists' cars equipped with heavy machineguns in Ein Ziwan area in Qunetira countryside, killing all terrorists inside them.

A number of terrorists were killed and others were injured as their vehicles and criminal tools were destroyed in a number of areas in Aleppo and its countryside.